Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic was one of the senior professorships at the University of Cambridge. Founded as a readership in 1724, the holder was appointed by the Lord Almoner and paid from the Almonry funds. Before it was upgraded to a professorship before or in 1815 it was usually combined with the Sir Thomas Adams's Professorship of Arabic and held by the same person.
The chair was discontinued on the death of the incumbent in 1933.
Lord Almoner's Readers
- David Wilkins (1724)
- Leonard Chappelow (1729)
- Samuel Hallifax (1768)
- William Craven (1770)
Lord Almoner's Professors
- George Cecil Renouard (1815)
- Thomas Musgrave (1821)
- Thomas Robinson (1837–1854)
- Theodore Preston (1855)
- Edward Henry Palmer (1871–1882)
- William Robertson Smith (1883)
- Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (1886)
- Robert Lubbock Bensly (1887)
- Anthony Ashley Bevan (1893) - contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica
